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'Ballamoddey' - 1937 on the Mid Sodor Railway


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On 09/01/2022 at 18:43, JustinDean said:

I know how daunting some of these tasks are so good to hear you have some help to hand! 
Looking forward to seeing your progress. 
 

Jay


cheers Jay!

 

Well the good news is the Greenwich couplings work with the magnets! :) 

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Been a bit quiet over the past few days. Not felt myself, and just trying to get my head together.

 

The modelling has helped though. Tonight I've built a coal wagon (WHR prototype). One of various types used on the Mid Sodor railway, however it’s dwarfed in size by the one the local railway men call…. the ‘Big ‘un’!

 

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I also made a decision to buy a certain 4-6-0T.
It will require some remedial work to make it right for the layout.

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Sorry to hear your under par Tom. Modelling is great escapism as you say.

The rolling stock is coming along lovely.

Your a tease! But I see over on FB what you have bought looks a cracking little loco looking forward to seeing what you will do with it.

I see your work was featured as passing examples of finery on the 009 society podcast by Railway Mania I think it is on YouTube. In good company there and well justified.

Hope your feeling more yourself v soon.

Cheers 

Ade

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On 11/01/2022 at 12:08, Tom F said:


cheers Jay!

 

Well the good news is the Greenwich couplings work with the magnets! :) 

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Hi Tom,

 

The brake van looks fab! Can I ask how you found putting together the Greenwich couplings?

 

I had an unsuccessful attempt at attaching a Peco NEM pocket to a Dundas Hudson bogie over the weekend but I’m interested in looking at the Greenwich couplings if they’re easy to put together and use. 
 

Ian

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6 hours ago, MrTea said:


Hi Tom,

 

The brake van looks fab! Can I ask how you found putting together the Greenwich couplings?

 

I had an unsuccessful attempt at attaching a Peco NEM pocket to a Dundas Hudson bogie over the weekend but I’m interested in looking at the Greenwich couplings if they’re easy to put together and use. 
 

Ian


Thanks Ian 

 

I find they go together fairly straight forward. The only mess up I’ve done is folding in the wrong place as I wasn’t looking instructions! :lol:

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2 hours ago, RodneyS said:

That's a superb representation of weathered wood.

May I please ask what you have used for the lettering ?  I particularly like the 'No' with the dot under the 'o'.

Rodney


Thanks Rodney

 

Just a case of cutting smaller transfers off a Fox sheet to get the right look (2mm N and 1mm O)

 

A nice surprise was waiting when I returned home from work yesterday. Had to be checked first by the railway inspector of course!

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Ever since that Baldwin was first announced I have been having to resist the temptation to build something Snailbeach related.

 

I have another layout to finish first!

 

That's a proper dog btw, I do miss having one around.

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15 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

That's a proper dog btw, I do miss having one around.


She’s wonderful….. a little madam too at times! A true companion!

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A splash of colour makes all the difference. It did require masking off the loco as best as I could, and some slight touching up.

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I'm heading up to the workbench to make the replacement Greenwich couplings for the loco.

 

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4 hours ago, Greatnorthern1470 said:

Will you go for red like in the books or black like Awdry's model?

 

The book is wrong. The artist might have been asked to add it or might have even used their initiative to include it but it is wrong. Totally wrong.

Loving the splash of colour on the bufferbeam matey! Can't wait to see it in the flesh on Sunday.

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3 minutes ago, Tom F said:

Managed to get No. 2 finished today. I've really fallen in love with the Baldwin as a locomotive.

MSR No. 2

'A Baldwin* 4-6-0 tank engine bought secondhand as Army Surplus after World War I, and nicknamed Stanley after the well known politician of that name.

Stanley proved, unfortunately, to be a bad bargain. He was a rough rider, and prone to derailment (DLE/8).Repeated attempts to cure this habit failed and he was turned into a pumping engine, first at Arlesdale Works (DLE/9), and latterly at the Cas-ny- Hawin mine. He was nearly worn out early in 1946, and finally broke down later in the year. The flooding which resulted forced the mine’s closure in December, and that of the railway in January 1947'

 

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This shot I particularly like. I know it is on Scaca, but could easily be the Cas-ny-Hawin lead mine.

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Stunning! More please.

 

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2 minutes ago, NeilHB said:

He looks fab Tom - the plain black looks much more suitable than the red livery from the book. 

 

It does doesn't it. I'd never been keen on the red myself. Wilbert states in an unpublished document the liveries of the MSR locomotives, and No. 2 is documented as unlined black. The document post dates 'Duke the Lost Engine' too.

 

Plus, when you look at the story Bulldog and when it  is set, it makes no sense for it to be a Baldwin. I like the idea that the loco would have been the original No. 2. I appreciate what Peter Edwards was trying to do, but it doesn't work in canon.

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